Hector Hugh Munro
Hector Hugh Munro
Hector Hugh Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story, and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 December 1870
thinking moral manners
I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
thinking pigs sheep
A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.
beautiful buddhism thinking
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
thinking order people
Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.
thinking people scandal
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
asked friendship sacrifices
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
sin
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
children sight people
People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.
life people income
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.
christian facts glory
He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
use growing way
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
addresses given whereabouts
Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
christian lions pioneers
Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
religious people decay
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.